With over 200 dedicated professionals, Beijing East IP has helped a full spectrum of clients – from startups to Fortune 500 corporations to domestic multinational companies – on their intellectual property issues in China.
On April 21, 2014, the Supreme Court published the list for Top 10 Intellectual Property Cases of China Courts in 2013, covering the civil lawsuits, the administrative lawsuits and the criminal lawsuits in the field of Intellectual Property.
On April 10, 2014, Beijing Eat IP organized a team to attend the AUTM Asia 2014 in Taipei. During the conference, many worldwide intellectual property experts discussed important issues in the field, including industry-academia collation, technology transfer, innovation creation, intangible property evaluation, high value patent, resolution of intellectual property disputes in litigation, arbitration, and mediation, recent breakthroughs in life science/agriculture technology, ICT, and creative industries.
The 2nd Seminar on Regulations on Unfair Competition on the Internet, jointly held by the Copyright Union of Internet Society of China, Beijing East IP Ltd. and K & L Gates LLP, was successfully held On April 15, 2014.
The TRAB (Trademark Review and Adjudication Board) comments on a typical trademark opposition appeal case involving the well-known mark of a worldwide well-known website on China Industry and Commerce News (newspaper hosted by SAIC – State Administration for Industry and Commerce, who oversees both Chinese Trademark Office and the TRAB).
Beijing East IP Ltd. will fund 2 million yuan in 2014, to create Gao Lulin Foundation in name of our Chairman, Dr. Lulin Gao. The Gao Lulin Foundation will support the research activities and award the outstanding talents in field of intellectual property, to help development of intellectual property community of China.
In January 2014, Patent Reexamination Board (PRB) issued a ruling favorable to a leading European company (the “Company” hereinafter) represented by Beijing East IP Ltd., rejecting a request for invalidation filed by a competitor of the Company.
Mr. Jason Wang, Partner at Beijing East IP Law Firm, recently published the Article The Conflict of Enterprise Name and Prior Trademark – Analysis on Article 58 of the new Chinese Trademark Law on Issue 12 of the 2013 China Trademark Magazine.
In December, 2013, the Supreme People’s Court issued a ruling favorable to a domestic mechanical equipment company (the “Company” hereinafter) represented by Beijing East IP Ltd., rejecting a re-trial application filed by a competitor of the Company.
In November 2013, Beijing East IP organized a team to attend the Intellectual Property Litigation Evidence Regulation Seminar hosted by the Supreme People’s Court and Jiangsu High Court in Nanjing. This seminar increased our attorneys and lawyer’s professional skills in intellectual property litigations.
As a famous luxury hotel band around the world, the RITZ-CARLTON mark owned by Ritz-Carlton hotel was recognized by China court recently. Both the trial court (Beijing First Intermediate Court) and the appellate court (Beijing High Court) overruled the decision of the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board (TRAB), and recognized the RITZ-CARLTON mark on hotel services and restaurant services as a well-known mark. The presiding judge from the appellate court for this case cited this typical case (cited this as a typical case) and posted comments and analysis on China Intellectual Property News on November 8, 2013.